White Rock Middle Loc.+: Blancan, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Spermophilus sp.
Cuvier 1825
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Ophiomys meadensis
(Hibbard 1956)
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| original and current combination Pliophenacomys meadensis | ||||||||||
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Pliophenacomys osborni
Martin 1972
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| OK, Zakrzewski 1984 | ||||||||||
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Neotoma taylori
Hibbard 1967
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= Neotoma leucopetrica
Zakrzewski 1991
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Zakrzewski 1991 | |||||||||
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Ondatra idahoensis
Wilson 1933
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Synaptomys rinkeri
Hibbard 1956
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= Plioctomys cf. rinkeri
Hibbard 1956
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Pliophenacomys osborni
Martin 1972
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= Hibbardomys voorhiesi
Zakrzewski 1984
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Zakrzewski 1984 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Geomys sp.
Rafinesque 1817
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Mustela cf. gazini
Hibbard 1958
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= Mustela cf. rexroadensis
Hibbard 1950
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus cf. simplicidens
Cope 1892
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| recombined as Plesippus simplicidens | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Republic |
| Coordinates: | 39.9° North, 97.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.0° North, 97.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Blancan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
| Also known as: | UM-K4-72+ | ||
| Database number: | 19944 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1460. | R. E. Eshelman. 1975. Geology and Paleontology of the Early Pleistocene (Late Blancan) White Rock Fauna from North-Central Kansas. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 13:1-60 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 3792 | R. J. Zakrzewski. 1984. New Arvicolines (Mammalia: Rodentia) from the Blancan of Kansas and Nebraska. In H. H. Genoways and M. R. Dawson (eds.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:200-217 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
| 3796 | R. J. Zakrzewski. 1991. New Species of Blancan Woodrat (Cricetidae) from North-Central Kansas. Journal of Mammalogy 72(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |